3.29.2007

The Aislers Set – Emotional Levy
Solex – Shoot Shoot
Feist – My Moon, My Man
Cassette – Ladybug
The Blow – Parentheses
The Huxtables – Hopper C
Morrissey – National Front Disco
Panda Bear – Comfy in Nautica
Mahoro de Mambo
Novelty Disco Band – Hate You, Baby
Komeda - Flabbergast
Of Montreal – Suffer for Fashion
Deerhoof – Matchbook Seeks Melody
Winterbrief – Repressant
The National – Beautiful Head
The Fake Fictions – Enough Isn’t Enough
The High Llamas – Summer Seen
Wir Sind Helden – Nur Ein Wort
Strawberry Story – Gone Like Summer
The Manhattan Love Suicides – Things You’ve Never Done
DNSS – Hand Clappin’
Flin Flon – Leading Tickles
Eef Barzeley – Thanksgiving Waves
Cold Cold Hearts – State Trooper in the Left Lane, Nattles
Anna O2 – Red Horse CafĂ©
Marnie Stern – Put All Your Eggs in One Basket and then Watch that Basket!!!
Quixotic – Ice Cream Sundae
The Faintest Ideas – Everything is Black
Apostle of Hustle – Cheap Like Sebastian
Julie Ruin – Stay Monkey
Sea and Cake – Sporting Life
El Perro del Mar – I Can’t Talk About It
My Favorite – 17 Berlin
The Gentle Waves – Falling from Grace
Bart and Friends – Dust from a Memory
Architecture in Helsinki – The Owls Go

3.22.2007

Metric – Too Little, Too Late
Love is All – Spinning and Scratching
Men in Fur – Deer Song
Of Montreal – Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
Apples in Stereo – Skyway
Hotpants Romance – Shake Baby Shake
The Moving Pictures – I Go Out of Tune
The Parcels – Snappy New Haircut
Six Cents and Natalie – Quilting Bee
Maher Shalal Hash Baz – A Big Hig
Superduo – Holiday
Peter, Bjorn, and John – Let’s Call it Off
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?
Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken
The Long Blondes – Polly
Broadcast – Corporeal
Stereolab – French Disco
Sam – Little Boy
The Magnetic Fields – The Flowers She Sent and the Flowers…
The Language of Flowers – Leaving
Bedroom Eyes – Blueprint for Departure
The Manhattan Love Suicides – Suzy Jones
Let’s Go Sailing – All I Want From You is Love
Dressy Bessy – That’s Why
The Faintest Ideas – You’re Beautiful
The Flatmates – Shimmer
El Perro del Mar – Party
Isobel Campbell – Amorino
The Subdebs – 12xu
Deerhoof – The Perfect Me
Architecture in Helsinki – It’5
Tullycraft – Secretly Minnesotan
France Gall – Laisse Tomber les Filles
Strawberry Whiplash – Falling Through
Young People – Sudden Fear
Marnie Stern – Every Single Line Means Something
Satistfact – Relay This
The Third Sex – Maul 10.09.97
Cadallaca – June-n-July
The Snow Fairies – The Life of a Total Square

3.11.2007

a few things

1. according to last.fm, my compatibility with ginny is super! i just think it's nice that my compatibility with anyone is super.

2. some thoughts on doing a radio show again:

2.a just fyi, since my show is an "a-list" show, i play 6 songs an hour (12 songs total, mathematician) from new stuff wcwm has received ("the new bin" in wtju speak). there are far fewer CDs on the a-list than were kept (often for months and months) in tju's new bin, so it's a little scary. sometimes i have to play bands i don't know, and i don't like them. this happened last week with lonely, dear, and i was about to back announce that the song i played almost made me swear off music, when right that second, someone called the station to ask what it was because they liked it. imagine! which leads me to:

2.b listeners of wcwm are way interactive! every single show i've done, i've gotten phone calls and IMs from people i don't know. i remember weeks and weeks going by at tju with no feedback at all, or maybe a call from someone thinking they had reached wnrn. it's so weird. and nice. and weird. i guess it never really occurred to me that people were actually listening. and the listeners are all quite flattering. almost everything i play that's not off the a-list is about 6 years old, but the kids seem to like it.

2.c speaking of the kids, i find it so weird that people doing shows can just bring in their ipods and play their playlists! i do bring my laptop, mostly because i don't actually own many of the the CDs i love, and it's nice to have a library there in case i think "i need to hear x right now!" but i haven't really used it much, in part because the levels are pretty low, and in part because it just feels weird, though not as weird as having your whole show on a playlist. i don't understand. how is that fun? i guess like i said, i never really thought about people actually listening to my radio shows. i figured it was sort of an imposition, actually. like, someone surfing through stations would most likely think "good god, what is this?" and so the fun part was always playing the songs, deciding what should come next, trying to play records at the right speed and inevitably failing, popping out the wrong CD, etc. lately i've been planning my shows a little more than sam and i ever did on tju, in part because, like i said, i have this itunes library that really trumps my CD collection. but it still doesn't lack total spontaneity. it can't, really, when you have to play stuff from the a-list. i guess what i don't understand (and this isn't a critique so much as real befuddlement) is: if you crafted the perfect playlist already, what would inspire you to go to the radio station? i suppose if i did that, i'd just sit in my room and listen to my perfect playlist by myself. the reasons i like going to the station are: 1) they have record players and i do not and 2) they have CDs i do not.

2.d it's spring break, and i think that means no radio show this week. i can't be sure, but every time i tune into wcwm in my car, i hear 2 guys talking about politics in a sort of all things considered meets fox news style. they scare me, because i figure either the station has evaporated and their frequency was taken over by news guys, or i'll walk into the studio on thursday and actually find those guys sitting there having their debate about iraq. either way, i think i should stay away until i hear signs of life again.

3.09.2007

Nellie McKay – Ding Dong
Pizzicato 5 – Twiggy Twiggy
Deerhoof – The Galaxist
Edie Sedgwick – Sally Field
Cause Co-Motion – This Time Next Year
C.O.C.O. – Move On
Peter, Bjorn, and John – Objects of my Affection
Let’s Go Sailing – We Get Along
I’m From Barcelona – Oversleeping
The Concretes – Teen Love
The Mosquitoes – Teenage Frustration
Camera Obscura – Teenager
Beat Happening – Teenage Caveman
Kicking Giant – Teen Angel
The Ramones – Teenage Lobotomy
The Magnetic Fields – Swinging London
El Perro del Mar – God Knows
The Microphones – Pre-Amp
My Favorite – Homeless Club Kids
The Brentwoods – Buri Buri U.S.A.
Comet Gain – Never Die
The Manhattan Love Suicides – Thinking is Killing Me
Boyracer – Nothing Left
Les Breastfeeders – En Dansant le Yah!
Asobi Seksu – New Years
Chicks on Speed – Shooting from the Hip
Mika Miko – Capricornations
Marnie Stern – Letters from Rimbaud
Mocket – Photon
The Rondelles – Backstabber
Lonely Dear – No One Can Win
The Receptionists – Under the Rug
Heavens to Betsy – Firefly
Bug Bite – Bugs Bite
Of Montreal – Sleeping in the Beetle Bug
Ryan Doyle w/ Pants Yell – Ladybug, Ladybug
Maher Shalal Hash Baz – Kidneys
Versus – Play Dead
Sleater- Kinney – The Size of Our Love
The Moves – T.Nee
The Aislers Set – Bang Bang Bang

3.01.2007

radio show playlist

My Favorite – Go, Kid, Go!
The Pipettes – Because It’s not love
Cause co-motion – baby don’t do it
Halcali – Tandemu
Sarah Dougher – my pal
Peter, Bjorn, and John – objects of my affection
The Besties – zombie song
Kawaii – happy planet, scary planet
Deerhoof - +81
Liliput – Madness
Marnie Stern – Grapefruit
Stereo total – tas de tole
Mr. Airplane man – Johnny Johnny
Fujiya and Miyagi – collarbone
Sally Shapiro – Anorak Christmas
Of Montreal – suffer for fashion
The positions – caught up
El perro del mar – candy
Palomar – our haunt
Holly golightly – virtually happy
Rilo kiley – does he love you
The manhattan love suicides – skulls
Love is all – aging had never been his friend
Modest mouse – heart cooks brain
Saturday looks good to me – alcohol
Let’s go sailing – icicles
Poundsign – the best day
Maher Shalal Hash Baz – a big hug
Les breastfeeders – septembre sous la pluie
The blue minkies – Helena
The smittens – twee valley high
Spider and the webs – frozen roses
Bart & friends – dust from a memory
Heavenly - sacramento